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30% reduced glide efficiency: How turbine wakes negatively affect soaring birds

Wind turbines may seem innocuous enough, but they have the potential to reshape the air birds fly through. In a recent ...
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How Do Birds Fly? Answers to Common Questions About Birds

Do you know why blue-footed boobies have blue feet? Author Laura Erickson does, and you’ll find the answers to this and many other great questions in her book, The Bird Watching Answer Book. (For the ...

Friends help Northwest Arkansas wildlife rehabilitator offer birds of prey a place to spread their wings and fly

Morning Star Wildlife Rehabilitation Center has served as the only rehabilitation center for birds in Northwest Arkansas for ...
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Millions of birds take flight over Indiana amid strong south winds

INDIANA, USA — It is migration season, and a large wave of birds are expected to fly north over Indiana skies: 12 million birds may be fly over us Sunday night and Monday night put together (April ...
Forbes

A Biologist Spotlights The Largest ‘Bird Of Prey’ In The World (Hint: It’s Also The World’s Heaviest Soaring Bird)

Birds, by design, tend to be small, light and streamlined. Yet there are some that push the boundaries of size. Here is the avian world’s best example of an ultra-heavyweight flyer. Birds of prey are ...
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Millions of birds are flying over Tennessee this week. Here’s why

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Tennessee is in the peak of bird migration, according to experts. In fact, the current weather conditions are causing the number of birds flying north to explode. Laura Cook, ...